Weather-strip.



N0. 695,993. Patented Mar. 25, I902. F. E. AL

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FREDERICK E. ALLEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETS, ASSIGNOR TO IM- PROVEMENTS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHU- SETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

WEATHER 'STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,993, dated March 25, 1902. Application filed March 26, 1901. Serial No. 52,936. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. ALLEN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Weather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to weather-strips'for doors in which the strip is pivoted to the door and is adapted to be swung downwardly by the closing movement of the door to make a tight joint with the door-sill or other adjacent surface.

The invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective weather-strip of this character adapted to be put upon the market in a length sufficient for a door of maximum width and to be reduced in length bythe party applying it to suit narrower doors, the reduction in length having no effect upon the operativeness of the device.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

On the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view showing a portion of the swinging edge of the door and a portion of the door-casing and threshold, the door and easing being provided with a weather-strip and an operating device or striker therefor in accordance with my invention, the door being ajar. Fig. 2 repre sents an edge view of the door in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a view similar to Fig. 1, the door being closed. Fig. 4; represents an edge view of the door when closed and a sectional view of the threshold. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the striker attached to the door casing or jamb. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the weatherstrip, with its operating-rod removed from its socket. Fig. 7 represents a perspective View showing the weather-strip rod and socket connected. Fig. 8 represents a view similar to Fig. at, showing a modification, the weatherstrip being located at the outer side of the door. Fig. 9 represents across-section on line 9 9 of Fig. 7.

The same letters of reference indicate similar parts orfeaturcs, as the case maybe, wherever they occur.

in. the drawings and referring for the present to Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive, (t represents a weather-strip, which may be made of felt, leather, or other suitable flexible material, and may, if desired, be'a strip or ribbon of thin and resilient sheet metal, such as steel.

Z) represents a rod, to which the strip a is attached by means of a sleeve 0, of thin sheet metal, partially encircling the rod 1) and having flanges c c, which bear upon opposite sides of the strip a and are riveted or otherwise secured thereto, the sleeve 0 being firmly secured to the rod Z) in any suitable way, so that both will rotate together, the rotation of the rod and sleeve swinging the strip a, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 4. The rod 1) and the sleeve 0 thereon are jcurnaled in an elongated socket d, composed of a strip of sheet metal which is rolled to form a socket portion, which surrounds more than half the diameter of the rod 1) and its sleeve 0, so that said rod and sleeve can turn in the socket and are confined therein. The strip forming the socket (Z is provided with a flange d, which is formed to bear upon the upper surface of a slot or recess f, cut in the bottom of the door g, said flange being provided with holes to receive attachingscrews, which secure it to the door.

h represents a spring which is coiled about a portion of the rod 1) and sleeve 0, one end of the spring being attached to the rod and the other to the socket (Z, the spring being arranged to normally hold the rod, with the strip a, in the raised position shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

One end of the rod 1) is bent substantially at right angles to the body of the rod and forms an arm I), which projects from the swinging edge of the door g and is normally held by the spring 71. in position to engage the inclined outer end of a guide or striker i, attached to the jamb or casing j, said striker being so arranged thatwhen the door is moving to its closed position the arm b willcome in contact with the striker and will be raised thereby from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the rod 1) being thus turned to swing the strip a downward and cause its free edge to bear closely against the door-sill or threshold 7;. A firm and practically airtight connection is thus afforded between the strip and the threshold. \Vhen the door is open, the spring returns the rod and strip to theirnormal positions, raising the strip from the threshold.

It will be seen that the described construction enables the strip and its supporting rod and socket to be made of any desired length, so that it can be put upon the market in a length suitable for doors of maximum width and can be reduced in length to any desired extent by cutting off the superfluous parts at the right-hand end, as viewed in Fig. 7, an operation which can be easily accomplished by means of a hack-saw.

The socket d and its flange cl, extending continuously the entire length of the strip a, (excepting where the socket is cut away for the opening h,) cooperate with the strip in forming an air and dust proof joint under the door, the socket covering practically the entire length of the upper face of the slotf in the door, so that there is no objectionable air-admitting crevice above the strip a. In practice the spring it will practically fill the place of the cut-away portion of the socket, the convolutions of the spring being shown in Fig. 7 more widely separated than they would be in actual use.

The rod Z) and sleeve 0 constitute an elongated journal, to which the strip orfiap a is attached, and the socket d constitutes anelongated journal-bearing,in which said journal is fitted to turn to raise and depress the strip, said bearing having an opening in the lower side through which the strip projects and in which it is adapted to oscillate, the width of the opening being less than the diameter of the journal, so that the journal and strip are supported by the bearing and permitted to oscillate by the opening. The edges 0 0 of said opening constitute stops adapted to limit the movements of the strip.

In Fig. 8 I have shown a modification in which the rod Z) and the sleeve 0 are contained in a socket 61 which forms a part of a strip which is bent to form a projecting casing (i concealing the rod and strip, and having a vertical flange d adapted for attachment to the inner side of the door. In this case the striker t' will be elongated, so as to extend farther back from the front of the jamb than in the construction shown in the other figures.

I do not limit myself to the means here shown for operating the strip a, and the same may be variously modified without departing from the spirit of my invention. I

It is obvious that the journal may be of any other suitable construction and that the strip or flap a may be attached to it in any other mechanically equivalent Way.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, I declare that what I claim is- 1. A weather-strip comprising an elongated socket or j ournal-bcarin g having a longitudinal opening in its lower side and means for attachment to a door, an elongated journal fitted to turn in said bearing, a strip or flap projecting from the journal and through the said opening, the width of the opening being less than the diameter of the journal, and means for oscillating the journal to raise the lower edge of the strip clear of frictional contact with objects below it.

2. A weather-strip comprising an elongated socket or journal-bearing having a longitudinal opening in its lower side, and a flange adapted for attachment to a door,an elongated jonrnalfitted to turn in said bearing, a strip or flap projecting from the journal and through said opening, the width of the opening being less than the diameter of the journal, and means for oscillating the journal to raise the lower edge of the strip clear of frictional con tact with objects-below it.

3. A weather-strip com prising an elongated socket or journal-bearing having a longitudinal opening and an attaching-flange, an elongated journal fitted to turn in said bearing and a strip or flap projecting from the journal and through said opening, said journal being composed of a rod, and a sleeve placed upon the rod and having flanges between which the strip is held.

4. A weather-strip comprising an elongated socket or journal-bearing having a longitudinal opening on one side, and an attachingflange, an elongated journal fitted to turn in the bearing, a strip or flap projecting from the journal and through said opening, and a spring engaged with the socket and journal and adapted to normally hold the journal and iiap in the raised position of the flap, the journal being provided with a flap-depressing member adapted to cooperate with a complemental fixed member to depress the flap when the door is closed.

5. A weather-strip com prising an elongated socket or journal-bearing having a longitudinal opening on one side, and an attachingflange, a journal fitted to turn in said bearing, a strip or flap projecting from said journal and through said opening, a spring engaged with the socket and journal and adapted to raise the flap, and an arm on one end of said journal adapted to engage a fixed cam or striker to depress the flap when the door is closed.

6. A weather-strip comprising an elongated socket or journal-bearing having a longitudi- 1151 opening on one side, and an attachingflange combined with a cam or striker affixed to the door-casing and formed to move the arm against the force of the spring when the door is being closed.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FREDERICK E. ALLEN.

\Vitnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. D. HARRISON. 

